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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 9, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In four letters to appropriators in the House, scores of Representatives are pushing for the inclusion of pro-family, pro-life, and religious priorities in the federal budget.

Three of the letters went to Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee Rep. Jack Kingston, R-GA, asking him to include religious freedom, pro-life, and pro-family legislation into bills his subcommittee passes. A fourth letter went to Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, a Republican who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs. This letter asked for defunding of the U.N. Population Fund because of its purported involvement with China's One-Child Policy, and a reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy.

With the Senate declaring it will not pass a budget resolution, despite federal law, the odds of the measures being made law are almost zero. Kingston told LifeSiteNews that despite this, he would “include these pro-life measures in the 2015 funding bill.” He said this was a priority “as a life-long defender of the unborn, and a supporter of these funding restrictions.”

Michael Steel, spokesperson for House Speaker John Boehner, R-OH, that getting all 12 Appropriations bills “is definitely our goal.” The House only passed four of the 12 bills last year.

Steel also said that even though the Senate is unlikely to consider any House Appropriations bills, he “definitely” believes passing them is constructive.

In a phone call, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-KS, told LifeSiteNews that while “there is no doubt in my mind that we are not going to get to all of the appropriations bills,” putting pro-life and pro-family riders into bills “is very valuable.”

“I think it raises the issue,” said the outspoken conservative. “What happened in Ken Cuccinelli's loss is what happens when we cower in the corner, and we let Democrats describe who is extreme. It's a good thing to have [a rider] in there and win, without a debate. But having an open debate is valuable, so we can identify how extreme and radical Planned Parenthood is, and how extreme and radical its founder was.”

Huelskamp said pro-life riders may be the best result of the GOP's control of the House, noting that despite some riders not surviving “the Pelosi years, we've gotten them all back in.”

Huelskamp noted that he “helped write the language that was approved” by a federal court allowing Kansas to pull funding from Planned Parenthood.

Socially conservative legislation has been a major issue for many Members of Congress who think Republicans don't do enough for families and the unborn, and that Democratic policies are actively harming the family. The first letter, signed by 100 lawmakers, asked Kingston to include the text of Rep. Diane Black's, R-TN, legislation changing the Affordable Care Act to protect employers and individuals from having to purchase or give health insurance that covers a service objected to on religious or moral grounds. It also would expand protection for doctors, hospitals, and others in the health care field that oppose providing abortion services.

The legislation is known as the “Health Care Conscience Rights Act,” or H.R. 940.

Another letter, signed by over 80 Members, was sent on April 5 to Kingston. It asked him to “end taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., as well as their affiliates” in the bill his subcommittee is expected to pass later this year. Currently, the Hyde Amendment prevents no federal funding for abortions unless they are used for abortions related to rape, incest, and life of the mother.

A third letter received by Kingston asked he and his Democratic counterpart to eliminate funding for the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was accused of being a “death panel” by many conservatives in 2009 and 2010. The board is supposed to make recommendations for cost-cutting measures to Medicare if spending grows too large.

A fourth letter, which was received by Granger, asked the Congresswoman to bar funding for the U.N. Population Fund because of “its complicity in China's brutal one-child policy” in addition to restoration of the Mexico City Policy. The latter policy has been a political football for both parties.

Other measures are included in the letter, such as blocking funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortion. There are exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.

The press offices of Black and Granger did not respond to multiple request for comment regarding the letters.